The lights flickered on again.
Cold, yellow light brought life to the workshop
It was probably either really early or really late, Elisse wasn't sure and he didn't care.
How many hours had he been working? , The passage of time felt fake anyway
He could see the clock right above his head on the wall, ticking the day away.
Any mortal would have gone crazy if they weren't able to feel the passage of time
but, for a being like him, it just felt like seconds.
A mortal life time was meaningless to him, even if he wasn't the gigantic and nightmare inducing being he once was.
Now, he was reduced to creating technological clutches to help him with his "errands"
Somedays, he just looked at the ceiling and asked himself: Why?
Why was he still doing this?
Was it the thrill of freedom?
Of going around the universe and being able to see and experience more than anything he could ever dream of?
No.
That wasn't it.
He knew he wasn't truly free.
No matter what he did or how far he ran
His past would eventually catch him like it always had.
This wasn't even about working with Black Hat, he knew he could escape from him if he so wanted to
After all, he was replaceable.
He didn't hold any important category, he was simply: "the delivery guy"
And he liked the unimportance of his position because it allowed him an easy scape
He had somewhere to go to, he always had a backup plan if things went sour
Because he wasn't an idiot, he knew that he would probably get killed or locked away to rot or something else worse than death
Was he really that bad?
No, no he wasn't
Or at least that was what he told himself every night
He didn't need to sleep, but sometimes he did because he wanted to shut his brain off
With every passing day, every robbery and kilometer travelled
His job seemed easier.
But he couldn't shake that little voice in his head that told him what he was doing was wrong.
He still felt hatred for some of the villains he saw
His heart ached sometimes, when he heard screams coming from Flug´s laboratory.
He knew all of this was wrong, but his worries seemed to go duller and duller everyday
He didn't even need the money
What would he spend it on?
He didn't need to eat, He didn't replace his clothes very often and he didn't have many belongings of his own.
His motorcycle and headphones made all of his belongings.
Then what was it?
What keept pushing him to do all of this?
Boredom.
He was an inmortal being with nothing to do with all the time he had.
He had lived with a family at some point and still held them in his heart very dearly
But it didn't feel the void in his life.
He tried being a hitman, taking human lives far and wide for money
Feeling the blood in his hands and the adrenaline of the hunt
But even that became boring eventually
He had wandered endlessly
Until he found this dimension
He heard about Black Hat and all the terrible things he had done
The rumors picked on his curiosity and he decided to present for a work interview
The eldritch looked down onto the candidates, one by one, making fear appear in their faces and their bodies tremble
He talked about power
About control
And eventually during his speech he transformed into a horrible, putrid, disgusting monster
Everybody ran for their lives, except Elisse.
He wasn't impressed and he was hardly even shocked
Black hat smiled , a wicked, sharp, toothy grin
He was pleased with himself for scaring all those inferior beings away
There was only one left
The smile disappeared from his face, replaced with indifference
"Since you are the only one left, and I have better things to do with my time, you are hired"
He said, hardly even changing the tone of his voice and left, calling for Flug later to show the new employee their room.
Since this was someone who was going to work with them daily it made sense for Black Hat to allow him to live at his mansion.
Flug was getting really weird vives from the new employee
of course, he had done the research on all the candidates and Elisse was the only one of them that didn't had anything in his criminal records
He didn't found anything about him on the news or any kind of trace from where he had come from.
He didn't even know if this person was a human
And that was concerning.
They didn't exchange a word on the way to the room
Elisse wasn't too fond of the scientist either, he heard that Flug had a gigantic ego, bordering on megalomania.
"This, is your room"
He turned the lights on, revealing a fairly good sized room
"You are allowed to customize it however you want"
It was definitely going to need a redecoration
White, plain walls
An individual bed with plain black sheets
And a decent sized closet
It didn't have any windows, only vents
Those were the only things on the room.
"You are not allowed to leave unless you are told to or given permission.."
The scientist started reciting the terms of the contract, Elisse already knew them.
He began rambling about loyalty and other things that villains clearly didn't practice
Elisse was bored and didn't even try to pretend to be putting attention, but the scientist was so entertained with his discouse, he didn't seem to notice
Eventually, Elisse was left alone.